Articles and expert opinions on the recent development on the field of labour law in Europe
Panel 1: Strategic litigation to advance workers rights: overarching remarks Panel 2: Platform work and digital technology Panel 3: Working time Panel 4: Migrant, temporary and vulnerable workers
1. The employee’s lie regarding stay abroad during Pandemia justifies disciplinary dismissal – judgment of the District Court in Olsztyn of 29.01.2021. : IV PA 79/20 The judgment of the District Court in Olsztyn is a precedent, because it decides whether the employer has the right to dismiss an employee who has concealed information about … Read more
Newsletter 01 – 2022 (Working time, Crowd working, social dumping) National legislation Spanish Labour Law Reform Spanish Government introduced through Royal Law Decree No. 32/2021 of 28 December – confirmed by the Parliament in early February 2022 – a wide labour law reform. The “pro-labour” inspiration of the whole reform has implications also in the … Read more
Article in “Pledge Times“
Letterbox companies are an increasing phenomenon of major concern for the European trade union movement. Such artificial business constructions allow for their domiciliation in a tax friendly country, while performing commercial activities in other countries. The main objective is to minimize tax liability. Not only do letterbox companies represent a real danger to public finances, … Read more
Article written by Sara Fekete, PhD candidate at the Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Faculty of Law (Hungary) – January 2020
Michał Szypniewski, Junior Researcher at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Gdańsk; lawyer at Rycak Labour Law Office in Warsaw November 2018 Download the Contribution Posted workers play a crucial role in the development of the internal market of services. It hardly needs to be stressed that posting of workers is an example of a … Read more